Italy Broadcasting Euro2016 Matches in 4K Via Eutelsat

Italy national public broadcaster RAI and Eutelsat began delivering to Italian viewers Thursday the first of seven planned Euro2016 matches in Ultra HD. UEFA placed 14 cameras at the Vélodrome Stadium in Marseilles, with the images then sent to the International Broadcasting Centre in Paris, where they were forwarded to Eutelsat’s Paris-Rambouillet teleport, they said. A temporary studio set up by RAI at the teleport added live commentary, before the special RAI 4K channel was encrypted and uplinked to Eutelsat’s Hotbird satellites, they said. Supporting partners are DBW Communication and V-Nova.